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I have something valuable to convey

"Self-Portrait" - March 2024 made by Polaroid xs70

I think we should get a little closer, so let me introduce myself. My name is Antonina and it's been 29 years since I arived to the planet earth. This long time became an advantage for my study of local phenomena. The first years of my life were spent in a post-socialist country, which undoubtedly left indelible imprints in my soul. Despite my adherence to Western culture as a mythical ideal propagandized by my surroundings during my youth, I still managed to find my own truth and now I see Western society as nothing more than a dressed up doll with a deformed body. But it has been a long journey. Undoubtedly my education in the philosophical sciences and the fact that I now live in the withering center of Europe's cradle, namely Germany, namely Berlin, have shaped my worldview. In the name of self-preservation from the destructive power of the consumer culture of the environment, I am practicing the art of photography. Although this story began a long time ago, before the apple fell on my head and I tasted what it was like to live in a "democratic society" where the concept of democracy is used for utilitarian, context-dependent purposes.

I use my camera to create stories. My Aunt Zina and my fondness for classical literature taught me a lot of this.

Sometimes it seems to me that I live somewhere in the middle between the past and the present. I often can see that my habits and behavior can easily disorient the observer, as my diligent reading of philosophical newspapers in the morning with a cup of coffee does not correspond to my light-hearted appearance.

But this is only at first glance and it all depends on the observer himself. I have some training in acting, which I use for playfulness in my life. In my system of values, action takes precedence over reflection, although it requires its support for ethically correct actions, which for me, without compromise, act as guidelines for a noble life.

My photographic work can be viewed at the link - http://antoniasavi.com/

My philosophical thoughts and photo diary will be continued in the future and published on this blog.

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Lysiane Bourdon - Garden of Fragilities

website / instagram / flickr

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Brooklyn, 2024

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Fred Brockett - Lbertia, c.1910

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Lysiane Bourdon

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©Philomena Famulok

Cut a hole in a bag filled with seeds of any kind and place the bag where there is a wind. (Yoko Ono, "Painting for the wind")

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*Caresses*

© Estelle Hissler

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Lysiane Bourdon, “Garden of fragilities”

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Lysiane Bourdon - Garden of Fragilities

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Rough Sea painted by Claude Monet (1840 - 1926)

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Claude Monet’s paintings of the sea

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Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)

Route à La Cavée, Pourville

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Jean-François Flamey / Nim Is A Tree Website | Tumblr | Instagram

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makes me want to visit my happy place as soon as possible again

Chalk Cliffs on Rügen by Caspar David Friedrich

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In 2024 the art world celebrates the 250th birthday of Caspar David Friedrich with numerous exhibitions and publications. But while most of the latter will focus on the undoubtedly enigmatic pictorial language of the artist, some will also deepen our understanding of how full it is of allusions and semantic content. The German art historian Helmut Börsch-Supan has devoted much of his professional life to the study of Caspar David Friedrich’s life and work, accordingly there couldn’t be a better suited author to discuss and explain the artist’s trains of thought: in „Caspar David Friedrich - Seine Gedankengänge“, recently published by Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Börsch-Supan takes a firm stand on the religious reading of CDF’s art and conclusively elaborates the connection between nature and religion in his oeuvre as well as he sheds light on the artist’s personality.

For Caspar David Friedrich nature first and foremost was god’s creation and could, according to him, be read like the Bible. Accordingly his view of nature goes way beyond the surface and is imbued with a deep religiousness. Concurrently his paintings and drawings also reflect his mental state, his life and his travels: the death of his younger brother, his attempted suicide or his late marriage all find their way into his works and are represented by particular keys and ciphers. These are comprehensibly identified and explained by the author.

And as is well-known, Friedrich’s precisely composed paintings rarely are correct reproductions of a given landscape or scenery but assembled from various impressions captured in drawings during his travels and wanderings. Börsch-Supan, intimately familiar with CDF’s works on paper, traces the individual elements back to specific drawings and transparently explains the painter’s compositions. 

In all, the book is the summary of a life spent researching Caspar David Friedrich and joins Börsch-Supan’s different strands of expertise. The reader benefits from his comprehensive knowledge of the artist through the in-depth and at all times lucid insights that already make the publication essential reading for this year’s Friedrich jubilee.

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